Gravity Forms – Moving the validation errors message ABOVE the pagination controls
Wow, there’s a title! Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin that allows the user to create and manage a collection of forms to be published on posts and pages. An example of this is a simple Contact Us form. One of the features of Gravity Forms is the ability to paginate the form. That’s right! […]
Add products to category quickly!
When dealing with Magento, the common knowledge to bulk update products is to pull in a collection and, in a loop, load the product, change the attribute and save. A client is syncing their product database from their system to Magento, but their system only allows a product to be in one category. I was […]
Google Minify and Far Future Expires Header
Google takes into account page load time into its ranking algorithm. As such, web developers the world over are trying to squeeze as much functionality into as few bytes as possible. This is where Minifiers come into the picture – they automatically remove all un-needed bytes from javascript and css files before sending them to […]
Get all emails from Gmail with a specific label, using Google App Scripts
Introduction Something I use at work is a task-tracking website. At the basic level, you give the task a short title, a long description, one or more flags, and estimate how long it will take to complete. A cool feature of this website is that they offer an api for registered users. The boss wants […]
Providing user feedback on background operations
On any website that does any form of background operation that prevents the user from progressing immediately (for example an ajax operation that updates search filters based on the currently selected option) then the user needs to be informed.
Some jQuery Optimisations
Sometimes you may think you are doing a nice simple effect in jQuery. In reality, you are making hundreds of unnecessary DOM calls and updates every second. And you wonder why the effect is taking so long to run. This post hopes to teach you how to optimise your code to run that little bit […]
Magento XML Setting Parameter Values
Ah the strength and failings of Magento. Of all its features, the ability to control nearly all of the layout from a single local.xml file is my favourite. One of the main features of this approach is that you can call functions (called actions) to add, remove or override values for the block you are […]
Notepad++ VS Sublime 2
Where I work nearly every other developer is using Sublime 2, whereas I am working on Notepad++. Having seen the features and the way the other developers have set up their Sublime 2 environments, I have fought against the peer-pressure as I believe that Notepad++ is the same as (if not better than) Sublime 2 […]
Zend Framework Routing Solutions
Routing is the action of taking the requested url and pointing the application to the correct module, controller, and action so that the request can be correctly processed. There are a number of ways to implement this using the Zend Framework, the most common of which is to create a routing object in the application […]
CSS External Link Images
Some websites with external links have a small image or icon to indicate that the link will lead them to an external webpage. Here is a simple CSS trick to show an html entity indicating an external link:
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- Gravity Forms – Moving the validation errors message ABOVE the pagination controls June 15, 2018
- Add products to category quickly! June 4, 2016
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- Google Minify and Far Future Expires Header November 3, 2014
- Get all emails from Gmail with a specific label, using Google App Scripts May 15, 2014